Sunil is a common Hindu male name meaning "deep, dark blue color". It may refer to:

• Sunil (actor), actor in the Telugu film industry
• Sunil Kumar Ahuja (born 1961), professor of Medicine, Microbiology, Immunology & Biochemistry at University of Texas Health Science Center
• Sunil Chhetri (born 1984), Indian footballer
• Sunil Dhaniram (born 1968), Canadian cricketer
• Sunil Dutt (1928 – 2005), born as Balraj Dutt, Indian Hindi movie actor, producer, director and politician
• Sunil Dutta, author, social activist, scholar of music and poetry. He is the president of the North American Dhrupad Association
• Sunil Edirisinghe, Sri Lankan musician
• Sunil Erevelles Associate Professor of Marketing at the Belk College of Business at the University of North Carolina
• Sunil Gangopadhyay (born 1934), Indian poet and novelist
• Sunil Gavaskar, cricketer
• Sunil Gulati, current president of the United States Soccer Federation
• Sunil Khan, Indian politician
• Sunil Lahri, also called Sunil Lahiri or Sunil Lehri, Indian actor
• Sunil Mittal, Indian businessman
• Sunil Nayar, Indian American television writer and producer
• Sunil Babu Pant, Nepali politician
• Sunil Perera, Sri Lankan musician, part of the Sri Lankan band The Gypsies
• Sunil Prajapati
• Sunil Sharma Chairman, Gyanvihar University
• Sunil Sahu
• Sunil Santha
• Sunil Shetty, Actor
• Samvrutha Sunil
• Sunil Tagare
• Sunil Wettimuny
• Sunil Vaswani, Chairman of Stallion group, Nigerian billionaire
• Sunil, a character in the HBO drama In Treatment portrayed by Irrfan Khan

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Sunil Pal
Sunil Pal at Kailash Kher Kailasa's Rangeele Album Launch
Born	Sunil Pal
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Comedian, Actor, Voice actor
Known for	Stage comedy
Website
sunilpal.in

Sunil Pal was born in Chandrapur (Maharastra, India). He is a popular Indian comedian, actor and voice actor, and the 2005 winner of The Great Indian Laughter Challenge on STAR One. Lately he has been seen acting in many Bollywood flicks doing minor comic roles.

In 2010, he wrote and directed a comedy film, Bhavnao Ko Samjho, which featured a record 51 stand-up comedians.^[1]

Early life[link]

Sunil Pal came to Mumbai in 1995 when his father (who then used to work with Indian Railways) got transferred. He studied in Janata Vidyalaya city branch Ballarpur school. He joined the Junior College. There he used to mimic his professors and famous actors. After college, he struggled for three years.

Early Career[link]

During one of his interviews, he says that "I was working at a tea stall in Santacruz as waiter. Those days I'd sleep on the footpath. And I used to use the telephones of a nearby shop to keep in touch with my contacts in film industry." ^[2]

In 2000, Sunil got a chance to do a world tour with Aamir Khan (for Lagaan) as a junior artist. He was also involved in other tours of famous actors like Priety Zinta, Aishwarya Rai.

The Great Indian Laughter Challenge[link]

Later Sunil Pal contested in The Great Indian Laughter Challenge, and won the competition. He was the favourite of viewers, who were enthralled by his remarkable ability of impersonating many film actors (like Sunil Shetty, Nana Patekar, Sunny Deol, Dharmendra, Naseeruddin Shah, and Irfan Khan) with commanding progress. In addition, his self-created character of the drunkard "Ratan Noora" was widely admired.

Bollywood Career[link]

Soon after the show followed many small roles in Bollywood movies. So far he has worked in seven films. His first major Hindi film, Bombay to Goa released in 2007, although he has played small roles in Hum Tum and Phir Hera Pheri. On a tour with Sonu Nigam, he met Neeraj Vohra (writer and director) who later gave him a role in Phir Hera Pheri (2006). He has also worked in Apna Sapna Money Money and he has produced, written, and directed a film called Bhavnao ko Samjho. The film is in the Guinness Book of World Records for a record 51 stand up comedians acting in a single film. While the film was bashed by critics, audience members who follow The Great Indian Laughter Challenge enjoyed the film due to the stand-up comedians acting in the film and similar jokes.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Sunil Pal at the Internet Movie Database

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M. S. Narayana (Telugu: ఎం. ఎస్. నారాయణ) is a comedian and director in Tollywood. He has acted in more than 500 films & is noted for his comic timing and facial expressions with witty dialogues.

Filmography[link]

Actor[link]

Director[link]

1. Bhajantrilu (2007)
2. Koduku

Singer[link]

1. Kabaddi Kabaddi
2. Gabbar Singh

References[link]

1. ^ http://www.cinegoer.com/telugu-cinema/news-archives/january-2012/venkatesh-srikanth-starrer-shadow-muhurat-held-270112.html

External links[link]

• M.S. Narayana at the Internet Movie Database
• TLCA members felicitation to M. S. Narayana
• Koduku Movie Announcement

Sunil Philip Narine (born 26 May 1988 in Trinidad), is a West Indian cricketer who played in the 2006 U-19 Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka. He has since appeared in first-class cricket for Trinidad and Tobago.^[1] He was bought by the Kolkata Knight Riders for US$700,000 in the Indian Premier League (IPL) auction in February 2012, having had a "base price" of just $50,000.^[2] Several franchises, including the Mumbai Indians, have publicly expressed their disappointment at having failed to sign Narine.^[3] He came to the attention of IPL franchises and Indian cricket fans by virtue of his performances during an India-West Indies one-day series in 2011, won 4-1 by India.

He had a brilliant bowling effort for Kolkata Knight Riders, taking 5 wickets for 19 runs in a IPL match in 2012 & had the best bowling economy in IPL 2012. ^[4].

He won the Man of the Tournament award in the 2012 Indian Premier League for picking up 24 wickets at an average of 13.50 and an economy rate of 5.47, which was the best in the league.

References[link]

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Sir Martin Sorrell
Born	Martin Sorrell (1945-02-14) 14 February 1945 (age 67) London, England
Nationality	British
Education	Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School Christ's College, Cambridge Harvard University.
Occupation	Businessman
Known for	Saatchi & Saatchi WPP Group
Net worth	£115 million, (US$175 million) or more
Spouse	Sandra Finestone (m. 1970–2005) «start: (1970)–end+1: (2006)»"Marriage: Sandra Finestone to Martin Sorrell" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Martin_Sorrell) Cristiana Falcone-Sorrell (m. 2008) «start: (2008)»"Marriage: Cristiana Falcone-Sorrell to Martin Sorrell" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Martin_Sorrell)

Sir Martin Sorrell (born 14 February 1945, London, England) is an English businessman and the chief executive officer of WPP Group. He has served in that role since he started the company.

Biography[link]

Born in London to a Jewish family,^[1] whose ancestors came from Russia, Poland and Romania.^[2] Sorrell was educated at the independent Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School then Christ's College, Cambridge, and has an MBA from Harvard University.^[3]

He joined Glendinning Associates, and James Gulliver and then worked for sports agent Mark McCormack.^[4] He joined Saatchi & Saatchi in 1975, and was group finance director from 1977 until 1984. Often referred to as "the third brother",^[5] he designed and carried out many of Saatchi's agency acquisitions. Sorrell undertook this by refining the practice of the ‘earn-out’.

WPP[link]

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In 1985, Sorrell privately invested in Wire and Plastic Products, a British wire shopping basket manufacturer, and joined it full-time as Chief Executive in 1986. He began to acquire "below-the-line" advertising-related companies, purchasing 18 in three years, including in 1987 when he stunned the agency world with a $566 million "hostile" takeover of J. Walter Thompson. Sorrell followed this in 1989 with another dramatic hostile $825 million buy of Ogilvy and Mather. Since 2000, WPP has also acquired two more integrated, global agency networks, Young & Rubicam Brands and Grey.

WPP is regarded as the driving force for the period of consolidation which has been going on within the communications industry for the last ten – fifteen years. His WPP group has amassed the largest media buying group in the world, GroupM. Together with the creative agency networks, JWT, Ogilvy and Mather, Young & Rubicam and Grey, WPP is one of the three major players in the global advertising market.

WPP’s stock price soared and although the company then went through difficult times, during which it was on the verge of collapse, Sorrell’s determination and business acumen brought it around.

WPP has become one of the world's leading communications services and advertising companies valued by the UK stockmarket at £5 billion. With billings of £37 billion and revenues of £7.5 billion, WPP's operating companies provide national, multi-national and global clients with advertising, media investment management, information and consultancy, public relations and public affairs, branding and identity, healthcare communications, direct, digital, promotion and relationship marketing, and specialist communications services. WPP employs 140,000 people in 2,400 offices in 107 countries. He owns a substantial stake in the company through a series of pay awards and his own purchases of shares. Until recently he had never before sold shares in the company; his shares are worth around £70 million.

Sorrell himself is widely respected throughout the advertising industry, with his words being scrutinised and quoted by many within the marketing sector. Many industry observers credit him with the fact that the UK still has an independent, vibrant communications industry. His famed remark that the advertising recession in the early part of this decade was "bath shaped" was one of the most repeated quotes in the 2003 – 2004 period.

On 18 November 2008, WPP technically re-incorporated itself as an offshore entity in Jersey (Jersey is considered as a fiscal paradise by the OECD) in order to reduce an annual tax bill of more than £200million.^[6]

In 2003, after 33 years of marriage Sir Martin Sorrell split from his wife Sandra. Lady Sorrell was awarded £23million in cash, a Georgian townhouse, £2 million of bank deposits and two parking slots at Harrods (worth nearly £200,000).^[7]

Other interests[link]

Martin Sorrell in 2008

In 1997, he was appointed an Ambassador for British Business by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and subsequently appointed to the Office's Panel 2000 aimed at rebranding Britain abroad. In 1999 he was appointed by the Secretary of State for Education and Employment to serve on the Council for Excellence in Management and Leadership.

He is a Governor of London Business School, and a member of the Advisory Boards of both the Judge Business School in Cambridge, UK and IESE in Spain. He is also Chairman of the Global Advisory Board of the Centre for International Business and Management (CIBAM), at the University of Cambridge, UK.^[8] In 1998, he was appointed to the Board of Directors of Associates of Harvard Business School and to the Board of the Indian School of Business.^[9]

Criticism[link]

In 2005 Sorrell sold £9m of shares in WPP at the end of a restricted stock holding period. He also agreed to change a contract with the company which had been much criticised by institutional shareholders in WPP as being unfairly written in Sorrell's favour. Under the previous agreement if Sorrell had been terminated, it would have led to a very large payout; the new agreement provides him instead with no termination payment.

In 2005 his pay was £2.42 million including cash and bonuses.^[10] Further he exercised £52 million in share options, is entitled to a further £5.8million in stock, and deferred further options on another 2.65 million shares valued at £15 million until 2008.^[11] In 2011 Sorrell's pay package increased by 70% to £4.5 million after WPP's pre-tax profits rose 28%.^[12] In October 2011 Sorrell went on the BBC to defend large increases in his and other CEO pay packages^[13] at a time when real average wages in the Western world are declining.^[14][15]

Shareholders have criticised aspects of corporate governance at WPP. This came to the fore again in 2006 with the advent of two court cases revolving around alleged corruption in an Italian subsidiary and contract disputes with the US launch of the OK! magazine.

In June 2008 WPP drew strong criticism for the involvement of an agency, 'Imago', in which WPP's Y&R subsidiary held a minority interest, with the ZANU-PF presidential campaign in Zimbabwe. A report by the Financial Times^[16] found out that Imago was employed by Robert Mugabe's campaign for reelection to the presidency of Zimbabwe. WPP subsequently divested Y&R's minority interests in Zimbabwe.

Recognition[link]

He was knighted at the New Year Honours 2000 Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom.

On 27 September 2007, Sorrell was awarded the Harvard Business School’s highest honour, the Alumni Achievement Award, by Dean Jay O. Light. The award was also given to: Ayala Corp. chair Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, A. Malachi Mixon of Invacare, Donna Dubinsky and Hansjorg Wyss of Synthes.^[17]

Personal life[link]

Sorrell is married to Cristiana Falcone, Media & Entertainment Industries Director at the World Economic Forum.

Sorrell was previously married to Sandra, with whom he has three sons, but the marriage broke down in 2003. In October 2005, Sorrell cashed in £12 millon of shares in WPP to satisfy paying their £30 million divorce settlement,^[18] where represented by Nicholas Mostyn QC she was awarded: a £3.25m Georgian townhouse; two Harrods underground car parking spaces worth £200,000; £2m in bank deposits; £23.4m in cash; plus stocks and shares.^[19]

Despite the divorce settlement, Sorrell still had 13 million shares an estimated £80m valued stake in WPP at the time of the divorce, which represented around 1% of the company, plus his 2005 pay settlement award.

See also[link]

• List of British Jews

References[link]

External links[link]

• WPP website
• Interview with the New York Sun
• Cool Earth
• WPP moves to a fiscal paradise
• [2]